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  • Know your nocturnal neighbour: In a first in India, Bengal goes owl-spotting

    Kolkata: Bengal is set to go owl-spotting to map its distribution and abundance across the state. The state is now home to 23 species of owls. The state-wide owl survey, a first-of-its-kind initiative in India, will give a comprehensive ...

    14 January 2026 Times of India
    Cleanliness drive: IIEST teachers oppose attendance mapping

    Kolkata: An office order from the IIEST authority urging participation from students, scholars, teachers and staff members from each dept on scheduled Saturdays for a cleanliness drive and mapping of attendance in those programmes prompted the teachers' association to ...

    14 January 2026 Times of India
    60L take dip, Sagar boosts local economy

    Kolkata: From Jan 1 till the evening of Jan 13, around 60 lakh people took the dip at Gangasagar, and several lakhs more were expected to take the holy dip over the next two days on the auspicious occasion ...

    14 January 2026 Times of India
    Min temp may drop to 12°C today, says Met

    Kolkata: The mercury see-saw continued in the city on Tuesday. While the day temperature dipped slightly, the night temperature rose. However, with both the maximum and minimum temperatures staying below the normal mark, the cold feeling remained intact. The ...

    14 January 2026 Times of India
    790 no-honk challans in a month, school & hosp zones worst-hit

    Kolkata: Even as the enhanced fines got introduced more than three years ago to curb avoidable noise on roads, unnecessary honking continues to remain a headache for Kolkata traffic police and citizens, adding to noise pollution.The traffic wing prosecuted ...

    14 January 2026 Times of India
    Missing Guj man reunites with kin in Kol after 7 yrs

    Kolkata: A man from Baroda who went missing in Aug 2018 after leaving home to buy milk was reunited with his family in Kolkata on Monday evening. In the interim period, his mother died within one year of his ...

    14 January 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata weather today: Sunshine, mild temperatures, and air quality alert

    Kolkata on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, is experiencing a bright and dry day with sunny skies and comfortably warm afternoon temperatures, though morning and late evening will remain cool. However, yesterday's air quality was in the "poor" bracket with ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘He united us all’: Darjeeling pays tearful tribute to Prashant Tamang

    Darjeeling: Political rivals set aside their ideological differences to pay tribute to Indian Idol 3 winner Prashant Tamang, whose mortal remains reached his hometown of Darjeeling on Monday. Mourners acknowledged that Tamang's rise helped unite the people of the ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Villagers block Katwa road over SIR hearings

    Katwa: Residents of Ganguly Danga village in East Burdwan district blocked the Katwa-Burdwan state road for hours on Monday, demanding that hearings for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters' list take place at their village instead of ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    TMC, BJP in political tug-of-war on Swamiji’s birth anniv

    Kolkata: A political slugfest that started over the 163rd birth anniversary celebrations of Swami Vivekananda across Bengal on Monday turned into a volley of allegations and counter-allegations over posters of Trinamool neta Abhishek Banerjee in front of the Simla ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    To bolster ‘Chicken’s Neck’ security, abandoned WWII-era airstrips will be revived

    Jalpaiguri: Centre aims to revive several abandoned airstrips, some dating back to the World War-II era, in Bengal, Assam and Tripura. Sources said the govt wanted to increase regional connectivity in the states bordering Bangladesh at a time when ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    ED broke law, party chief’s presence was essential: Trinamool to tell SC

    Kolkata: Enforcement Directorate was breaking the very law it is bound to uphold, the Supreme Court is likely to be told in response to ED's petitions on the Jan 8 I-PAC searches in Kolkata and Salt Lake.CM Mamata Banerjee's ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Chill returns as mercury dips, cooler days ahead

    Kolkata: The minimum temperature plunged 3.6°C and dropped to 12.4°C as chill returned to Kolkata on Monday. It will get cooler as the week progresses, with the northwesterly winds set to gain intensity over the next 3-4 days, said ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    SSC to send HS asst teacher offer letters from Jan last week

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Central School Service Commission (WBSSC) is likely to start sending recommendation letters to higher secondary assistant teacher candidates from the last week of Jan. The recruitment panel is expected to be published before Jan 22. ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    St Xavier’s tribute to Vivekananda

    Kolkata: St Xavier's College (Autonomous) principal Father Dominic Savio reminded students on Monday that "Faith in oneself and in God is the secret of greatness." He said this while paying tribute to Swami Vivekananda on his birth anniversary. Focusing ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    KP modifies cyber awareness module, adds psychological harms & metaverse risks

    Kolkata: The cyber world's dangers are not just limited to financial losses or the threat of losing reputation. It also leaves a mark on one's mind that can have a lasting psychological impact, and the cops want to warn ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Two helps held for thefts

    Kolkata: Rahul Sharma(30), house help, was arrested in Dhakuria for allegedly stealing a pair of gold earrings, Rs 6,000 in cash, a bag containing Rs 1,200 along with a licence, a debit card, and two wristwatches.Rohan Bal, a domestic ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Citizenship row in Kolkata: Sports greats who donned India jersey protest SIR hearings ‘harassment’

    KOLKATA: Around 150 current and former sportspersons, including many prominent faces who have donned the nat-ional colours and won fame for the country, joined a protest on Monday against the “harassment” caused by SIR notices asking them and their ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Fight misinformation, don’t yield even an inch of social media space to BJP: Abhishek to TMC ‘digital warriors’

    Kolkata: With political discourse shifting online ahead of the Bengal assembly polls, Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday urged the party's IT cell to counter "BJP's misinformation campaign against Bengal", alleging discrimination against the state and Bengali-speakers.Citing ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Campus occupation row in Kolkata: CISF stays for 16 months, Tangra Chinese school moves HC before New Year

    KOLKATA: One of the city’s last remaining Chinese schools in Kolkata’s Chinatown, in Tangra, moved Calcutta High Court, pleading that CISF personnel deployed for RG Kar Medical College & Hospital’s security since the Aug 2024 gang rape and murder ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘Docus submitted but marked not found’: CM flags ‘arbitrary’ move in letter to CEC

    Kolkata: In her second letter to chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar within 48 hours, CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that the Election Commission was not issuing proper acknowledgement or receipts for documents submitted during Special Intensive Revision hearings ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    75-yr-old dies 2 days after SIR hearing, family blames ‘stress’

    Kolkata: A 75-year-old woman from Baduria in North 24 Parganas died on Monday after suffering a cerebral attack on Jan 7, with her family alleging that her death was due to severe mental stress over SIR hearing.Anita Biswas, a ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Pregnant woman’s marriage on rocks after ex-BF sends msgs, pics to hubby

    Kolkata: Police have registered a case after the 24-year-old pregnant woman alleged that her former partner has sent obscene photographs and abusive messages to her husband through social media, triggering a serious marital dispute and threats of divorce.According to ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Punjab gangsters who killed kabaddi player nabbed near Howrah station

    KOLKATA/HOWRAH: The Kolkata Police Special Task Force, with help from Golabari Police under Howrah City Police, arrested three members of Punjab's Bambiha gang from a hotel near Howrah station, less than a month after they allegedly gunned down a ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    In 2025, Kol saw lowest number of fatal accidents in a decade

    Kolkata: The city recorded 154 fatal accidents in 2025, the lowest in the past decade. There were 159 fatal accidents reported in 2023, and 191 in 2024. Last year's number was a 19.4% reduction in just a year, one ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Electors complain of faulty hearing notices

    Kolkata: Many voters are complaining of faulty hearing notices they are receiving even after rectifying spelling, age or gender errors that were spotted on the 2002 SIR list. Booth level officers (BLOs) and electoral registration officers (EROs) also conceded ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Two Barasat nurses in hospital with Nipah virus symptoms

    Kolkata: Two young nurses – one female and one male – attached to a hospital in Barasat are hospitalised with symptoms of Nipah virus. Sources said samples of the duo tested at AIIMS Kalyani revealed positive results, and the ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Metro ticket booth, app cab zone at book fair

    Kolkata: The international Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF) this year will come with three commuter-friendly additions — a dedicated metro ticket booth on the fair ground between gate numbers 1 and 2, an app cab booth outside gate 1, and ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Assault, threat plaints after South Kolkata road rage

    Kolkata: Two cross-complaints were filed after a Jan 10 road rage incident on Kalighat Road–Sadar Ghat crossing. The incident involve occupants of a private car and a scooterette rider, identified as Vikas Prasad Gupta. The car was carrying one ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Youth in gay dating app fraud robbed at Kolkata’s College Street market

    Kolkata: In a case of online gay dating fraud, a 21-year-old youth from Murshidabad was allegedly extorted of Rs 21,000, two gold rings and a silver chain after being confined for around four hours at Bornoporichoy Market off College ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    81-year-old retd prof dies in room-heater fire at Howrah home

    Howrah: A retired English professor of a Burdwan college died of burn injuries after a room heater sparked a fire in her room on Sunday night in north Howrah. Radharani Shaw (81) lived alone on the ground floor of ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Gangasagar air ambulance rescues 2 pilgrims

    Kolkata: The West Bengal govt's emergency response mechanism swung into action on Monday to rescue two ailing elderly pilgrims—Santlal (64) of Uttar Pradesh and Bimla Devi (77) of Haryana—from the Gangasagar Mela.The state govt has put in place an ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    With 75L from 2001 batch, IIT launches endowment fund

    Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur launched an endowment fund scheme, the IIT Kharagpur Tech Junction Endowment Fund, with a seed amount of Rs 75 lakh from the 2001 batch, who contributed on the 25th year anniversary of their graduation. An MoU ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Neuro-tonics & ray therapy work, zoo hippo out of moat after 3 wks

    Kolkata: The four-year-old ailing hippopotamus at Alipore zoo has finally come out of its moat after over three weeks on Sunday. All these days, it was unable to move probably because of a neurological disease or an injury in ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Where are jobs: JU-affiliated MBA students

    Kolkata: MBA evening students of Institute of Business Management (IBM), which is affiliated to Jadavpur University, protested, demanding jobs during the convocation of the institute on Monday. The students, who came to receive their degrees, alleged that they approached ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Hwh dumping ground: NGT rap for DM, HMCfor rule flout

    Kolkata: The Belgachia dumping ground subsidence matter exposed serious lapses by civic and district authorities, NGT's Eastern Zonal Bench said. In its order, the bench with Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and expert member Ishwar Singh criticised the DM, Howrah, ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Constitution row at JU: Panel’s report ‘inconclusive’

    Kolkata: The five-member fact-finding committee probing the Constitution row at the International Relations (IR) dept at Jadavpur University submitted its report to the VC, stating that the findings were "inconclusive".A senior official said, "The panel submitted report, and nothing ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    EC to appoint 2,000 more micro-observers

    Kolkata: The EC is going to appoint 2,000-plus micro-observers to verify enumeration forms and do fast hearings as the final roll will be published on Feb 14. Already, there are 4,600 micro-observers in the state. The EC will arrange ...

    13 January 2026 Times of India
    Nerve stimulants, ray therapy for ailing zoo hippo

    Kolkata: The Alipore zoo ailing hippopotamus has reportedly responded to treatment and made some movement on Thursday. It is also having food now, said a zoo source. For more than two weeks, it was unable to move probably because ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘Beaten, robbed for speaking Bangla’: Worker flees Odisha

    Goghat: A migrant worker, Raja Ali from Bhadur village panchayat in Goghat was allegedly beaten, tortured and robbed for speaking in Bengali in Odisha on Wednesday and was forced to rush back home.Raja started working at a stone factory ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘Watergate 2.0’: Trinamool posts WA ‘chat’, seeks probe into ‘MHA role’ in ED searches

    Kolkata: An unverified WhatsApp screenshot shared by Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh on X on Saturday suggested that 13 ED officials and a well-known cyber expert had flown to Kolkata for a meeting at the ED's Salt Lake office at ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Tea garden records get EC’s nod for SIR in north Bengal

    Kolkata: EC has given a go-ahead to Bengal chief electoral officer (CEO) Manoj Agarwal's proposal on Sunday to accept tea garden and cinchona plantation records as documents for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) for the north Bengal districts of Darjeeling, ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    I-PAC row: Cop lens on ED team, MHA seeks report

    Kolkata: With both the ED and the Bengal govt expected to head to the Supreme Court on Monday on the I-PAC issue, ED officers present during the Jan 8 searches at I-PAC's Salt Lake office and the Loudon Stree ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Letting Didi enter I-PAC office right move, says Suvendu while Samik slams ‘interference in probe’

    Kolkata: Leader of the opposition in Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari praised the restraint shown by ED officials when CM Mamata Banerjee stormed into I-PAC office while the agency's searches were on. BJP state president Samik Bhattacharya, on the other ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    MHA seeks report on Suvendu convoy ‘attack’, TMC slams ‘drama’

    Chandrakona: The Union home ministry has sought a detailed report following an alleged attack on state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari's convoy in West Midnapore on Saturday night.Adhikari claimed that Trinamool workers armed with sticks and poles attacked his ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Kolkata: Fire breaks out at stall on Baghajatin station platform; train services disrupted

    KOLKATA: Local train services were disrupted on Monday morning after a stall on the platform at Baghajatin station in south Kolkata caught fire, officials said.The fire broke out around 6 am and spread quickly, engulfing the area in thick ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    CJI to open permanent home for Jalpaiguri circuit bench on Jan 17

    Jalpaiguri: The Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court, which has been functional since March 2019, will get a permanent home on Jan 17, to be inaugurated by CJI Surya Kant in the presence of five other Supreme Court ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘What to do now?’: Citizenship cert after SIR hearing leaves E Burdwan BJP worker baffled

    Purbasthali (East Burdwan): Apprehending trouble in course of the SIR of voter rolls, 39-year-old Sabuj Das, a carpenter from Burdwan whose family had migrated from Bangladesh 26 years ago, applied for citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) four ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Once in blue moon visits not equal to living conjugal life with wife: HC

    Kolkata: Visiting "once in a blue moon" cannot be equated with living a conjugal life together as husband and wife, the Calcutta High Court observed on Jan 8 while granting divorce to a couple living separately since 2015. The ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Suicide bid hits Blue Line ops for 50 mins

    Kolkata: Blue Line services were disrupted for 50 minutes on Sunday evening following a suicide attempt at Netaji Bhavan station. "Due to a suicide attempt at 6.32pm at Netaji Bhavan station, truncated services were operated between Maidan and Dakshineswar, ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    City winter saviours keep the homeless warm

    Kolkata: With the unusual drop in mercury this winter, members of different organisations are assisting the homeless people by providing them with woollen garments and blankets so that they can ward off the biting cold and sleep at night. ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Bengal SIR: Headmaster on BLO duty found hanging in school; family cite immense work pressure, eighth death since rollout

    BEHRAMPORE: The headmaster of a govt school in Murshidabad, who was appointed as a booth-level officer for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, was found hanging in the school’s office on Saturday night.Family members and colleagues ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Prashant Tamang, Darjeeling’s Indian Idol champ whose win boosted Gorkhaland stir, dies at 43

    DARJEELING: Prashant Tamang, the singer from Darjeeling who was crowned Indian Idol in 2007, a feat that rede-fined the hills’ socio-political landscape and led to a renewed demand for Gorkhaland, died of cardiac arrest at his Delhi home on ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘Furnace mix-up’: FIR after man fails to receive mother’s ashes

    Kolkata: A 49-year-old trader from Dum Dum, Radha Kanta Biswas, claimed that KMC staff at Nimtala Ghat crematorium ‘mixed up' the cremation furnace in which his mother was burnt and, in the process, failed to provide him and his ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Students display creativity at school’s art & science exhibition

    Kolkata: St Sebastian's School hosted an art and science exhibition recently. Centred on the theme "The Science of Beauty and the Logic of Art", the exhibition highlighted the interplay of imagination and intellect in the learning process.Councillor Sandipan Saha ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    1971 Bangla air force docu to release in troubled times

    Kolkata: Against the backdrop of cross-border India-Bangladesh tension, an Indian film-maker has made a documentary to trace how "Bangladesh learnt to fly but India provided the wings". The documentary, ‘Wings of Defiance', revisited Operation Kilo Flight, which marked the ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Siberian husky gobbles up owner’s innerwear, safe after endoscopy

    Kolkata: A nine-month-old male Siberian husky, Tyson, swallowed an innerwear and it was removed successfully through non-invasive endoscopic surgery at Animal Health Pathology Lab (AHPL), a city base veterinary lab in south Kolkata. The dog was doing well after ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Over a yr on ventilator, 18-month-old girl with rare disease battles for life

    Kolkata: Despite being on ventilation for more than a year now at Institute of Child Health (ICH) Kolkata, 18-month-old Aditri — who is suffering from a rare genetic disease — is yearning for a life ahead. The girl was ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Metro work over, KMC eyes infra projects at park

    Kolkata: With the metro utility work at Wellington Square Park over, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) brass now wants a portion of the park back from Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) for setting up infrastructure projects. This development comes ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Cracker unit blast: 55-yr-old dies of injuries

    Kolkata: A 55-year-old man who was injured in the illegal firecracker factory in Champahati on Friday died at MR Bangur Hospital on Sunday. Hospital sources said Gourhari Ganguly, from the Piyali area in Canning, suffered nearly 100% burn injuries ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    More fee-parking zones for cars, bikes in Salt Lake as BMC comes up with revised list

    Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has come up with a revised list of ‘fee car parking zones' in Salt Lake, adding eight new stretches and omitting four previously identified stretches to allot a total of 18 paid parking ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Neighbourhood mourns death of boy who took music scene by storm

    Darjeeling: While the nation mourns Prashant Tamang, the winner of the third season of Indian Idol, his childhood friends in Toongsoong, Darjeeling, will always remember him as Arpan. From an early age, Arpan was drawn to music, inspired by ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Kol sees moderate AQI as sunny weather and winds disperse pollutants

    Kolkata: The city recorded moderate air quality on Sunday, giving residents brief relief from the pollution episodes that often accompanied winter, as sunny skies and steady winds helped disperse contaminants despite the presence of thermal inversion.Data from air quality ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    DHR to start 34km Jungle Safari from Jan 17

    Darjeeling: In a move to boost tourism, Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) has introduced a 34-km passenger service called Jungle Safari from Siliguri to Gayabari and back.According to DHR director Rishav Choudhary, the Jungle Safari offers an affordable and immersive ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Min rises to 15°C but brace for dip as chill may continue till end of wk

    Kolkata: Kolkata recorded a rise in temperatures on Sunday, but the chill was set to continue as northwesterly winds started gaining strength after a brief disruption, the Met office said.The minimum temperature jumped 3.5°C to 15°C on Sunday, even ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘Help’ at ATMs, bank leads to 2 women, sr citizen losing 1.5L

    Kolkata: Two women and a 79-year-old man lost their money—Rs 1.5 lakh in total—after they were "offered help" by fraudsters. While the women were conned at two ATM kiosks by swapping cards, the elderly man was robbed of his ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    5 from Bihar, K’taka held in city for loan fraud

    Kolkata: Five men from Karnataka and Bihar were arrested in a Friday night raid on a housing complex near Santoshpur-Mukundapur off EM Bypass for running a loan racket, offering small-time businesspersons fake credit under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY). ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    4 injured in Champahati fireworks unit explosion

    Kolkata: An explosion ripped through a fireworks manufacturing unit at Champahati on Saturday afternoon, severely injuring all the four workers inside. One of them is battling for life with 80%-90% burns.The blast occurred around 12.20 pm. Witnesses said three ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Hrishikesh Park pumping stn may be ready before monsoon

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to expedite the construction of the Hrishikesh Park drainage pumping station with a view to giving relief to the citizens of some of the traditionally low-lying pockets in north-central Kolkata. According ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Logical discrepancy: Voters fret over passport-only solution

    Kolkata: Do you have a passport? If yes, your SIR hearing for logical discrepancy will be resolved in just 2 minutes. If you do not, be ready to face the hassle of hunting documents to convince the Election Commission ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    2002 KP martyr’s son caught in Delhi cybercrime case

    Kolkata: Sankha Subhra Sen (23), the younger son of Bapi Sen, the sergeant who gave up his life trying to save a girl from being harassed on New Year's Eve night in 2002, was arrested by the Delhi Police ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    Rumblings among BLOs over new EC rule

    Kolkata: Booth level officers (BLOs) across Bengal are up in arms over "undue pressure" from EC to certify the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. BLOs are now being asked to provide signed affirmations confirming that names in ...

    12 January 2026 Times of India
    SIR a bigger hill to climb for electors without parents

    Kolkata: Forty-five years ago, orphan Heera (Amitabh Bachchan in the 1981 blockbuster ‘Laawaris') sang ‘Jiska koi nahin uska to khuda hai yaaron' (Kishore Kumar) to comfort himself that, when he had none in the world, God was his refuge, ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Morning fog, cold spell to continue next week: Met

    Kolkata: The cold spell in Kolkata continues with both the night and day temperatures dipping marginally on Saturday. Though the biting chill is missing at present, Alipore weather officials said the cold spell would prevail for now with no ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Actor-singer, Indian Idol Season 3 winner Prashant Tamang passes away at 43

    KOLKATA: Actor-singer and winner of Indian Idol Season 3 in 2007, Prashant Tamang passed away at the age of 43 on Sunday.Prashant hailed from the Darjeeling hills and was once associated with the Kolkata Police. West Bengal CM Mamata ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Protests after minor’s gang rape in Hind Motor factory

    Uttarpara: A youth, Dipankar Adhikari, alias Sonai, who flaunted his political connections in the Uttarpara-Konnagar belt, was arrested for the alleged gang rape of a minor inside the closed Hind Motor factory, where the Ambassador car was manufactured until ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    In pre-poll season, netas use dipping temp for voter outreach

    Kolkata: With a cold spell gripping Kolkata and surroundings, functionaries across party lines have stepped out with blankets, warm clothes and hot meals, turning winter relief into a form of voter outreach ahead of the assembly elections, due in ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Picnickers keep cops on toes, 400 booked for illegal parking

    Kolkata: Prolonged winter has led to more picnics and outings in the Maidan area and at Alipore zoo, creating a challenge for police to manage the additional flow of pedestrians, particularly on weekends. It also led to an issue ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘...Abar jitbe Bangla’: TMC hits poll note with new song

    Kolkata: Coinciding with its stand-off with ED on searches at I-PAC premises, Trinamool on Saturday released a three-minute campaign song titled "Jotoi koro hamla, abar jitbe Bangla (Attack as much you can, Bengal will win)", on the lines of ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Didi questions EC’s ‘audacity’ in calling icons to SIR hearings

    Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday questioned the Election Commission's "audacity" to call Bengal's icons — Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, poet Joy Goswami, a Bharat Sevashram Sangha maharaj, cricketer Md Shami and actor-MP Dev — for SIR hearings and ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    NIA arrests TMC worker in 2023 Moyna murder case

    Moyna: NIA arrested Trinamool Congress worker Swapan Bhowmik on Friday night in connection with the 2023 Bijoy Krishna Bhunia murder case. Bhowmik, from East Midnapore's Sabang, was allegedly absconding for over a year and half. He was arrested from ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Suvendu threatens defamation over coal smuggling allegation

    Kolkata: Hours after CM Mamata Banerjee alleged that proceeds of coal smuggling had finally reached Union home minister Amit Shah via Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of opposition in the Bengal assembly sent a legal notice to the CM demanding ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Won’t bow to Delhi: Abhishek Banerjee clubs ED, EC to slam BJP

    BANKURA: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday clubbed the EC and ED together as he stepped up the ante against BJP, accusing the party of misusing central agencies to target Bengal, rhetorically asking, "Does BJP think they ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari accuses TMC workers of attacking his convoy; sits on dharna at police station

    PASCHIM MEDINIPUR: West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari staged a protest inside Chandrakona police station, demanding registration of an FIR after alleging that his convoy was attacked by Trinamool Congress workers in Paschim Medinipur on Saturday night.He demanded ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Suvendu stages sit-in protest after Garbeta ‘attack’

    Kharagpur: Suvendu Adhikari, state leader of opposition and BJP MLA from Nandigram, staged a sit-in protest at Chandrakona Road police outpost in Garbeta after his car was allegedly attacked and his route blocked at Chandrakona Road market while he ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Fearing rush, book fair asks Metro to set up extra ticket counter

    Kolkata: With only 11 days to go for the International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF) to start at Salt Lake Central Park fairground, preparations are going in full swing to set up the book stalls and spruce up the fairground ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Fewer buses on city roads, operators cite Sagar mela, SIR

    Kolkata: A part of south Kolkata and its adjoining suburbs, especially towards South 24 Parganas, are facing a sharp drop in bus availability, leaving daily commuters struggling with longer waits, overcrowding, and disrupted travel plans during peak hours. The ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Money changed hands six times: ED

    Kolkata: A hawala transaction of Rs 20 crore — key to ED's charges on IPAC — changed hands six times to remove any trail before reaching IPAC's Goa office from Kolkata. The chain of money transfer, which was unearthed ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    165 turtles rescued at Howrah station

    Howrah: Railway police recovered 165 Indian flapshell turtles early on Saturday from Howrah Railway Station's Old Complex. No arrests have been made yet but RPF is reviewing CCTV footage to identify those responsible. The forest dept sent the sent ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    IndiGo fiasco, Kashmir terror keep 2025 airport footfall low

    Kolkata: Kolkata airport posted its strongest post-pandemic performance in 2025 but fell marginally short of matching the pre-Covid peak following disruptions during peak travel periods: the Pahalgam terror attack in April, the Ahmedabad plane crash in June and a ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    ‘Theft’ at I-PAC properties: KP starts probe against ED

    Kolkata: Kolkata Police on Saturday started the process of identifying Enforcement Directorate officials and CAPF personnel allegedly involved in the "theft of documents" from the Loudon Street residence of I-PAC chief Pratik Jain and the consultancy firm's office at ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Two deaths linked to SIR hearings

    Bongaon/Rampurhat: A 50-year-old man, Balai Das, attempted suicide on Friday in Beledanga, Gopalnagar, allegedly out of fear of the SIR hearing on Friday and died at RG Kar Hospital on Saturday, while a 75-year-old retired high school teacher, Kanchan ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    AERO resigns, cites ‘discrepancy ploy’

    Kolkata: A block disaster management officer resigned from the post of assistant electoral registration officer (AERO) in the Bagnan assembly constituency in Howrah, citing logical discrepancies as a ‘ploy' to prevent a large number of marginal people from casting ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Concerns over deadline to verify out-of-state certs

    Kolkata: The complex process of document verification after the SIR hearing is posing a challenge to complete the exercise within the timeline, a section of Election Commission (EC) officials said. The commission mandated verification of documents within five working ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Work starts to install key VIP Rd Bailey bridge link

    Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has started installing the truss structure of the 42m-long Bailey bridge that is being built to connect Salt Lake with Dakshindari. This is the key load-bearing superstructure of the bridge connecting the ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Correct Cellular Jail ‘bias’, mark Bengal martyrs’ contribution, say researchers

    Kolkata: A research group named after revolutionary, Ullaskar Dutta, demanded that cells at the Cellular Jail in Port Blair be named after 12 revolutionaries from Bengal, who were the first batch of political prisoners there. They were associated with ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Pathashree urban scheme to cover 112 roads in city

    Kolkata: The state govt has launched its flagship programme - ‘Pathashree Urban', which includes the repair, upgradation and construction of roads in urban areas to improve urban connectivity across the state. The state govt accorded an estimated financial outlay ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Polling booth debate: Tension for condos, many fear violation of secrecy, vote sanctity

    Kolkata: The recent decision to consider 69 high-rise residential complexes as polling booths has triggered a cautious debate among residents of the high-rises. Many felt setting up polling booths on their campuses will ease voting pains but they also ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    EC appoints 4 more roll observers for Bengal

    Kolkata: The EC has appointed four more special roll observers for SIR exercise in Bengal, taking the total number of observers for the state to 22. Three such officers man the EC control room.Bengal CEO Manoj Agarwal said the ...

    11 January 2026 Times of India
    Didi slams ‘arrogance’ as cops drag away MPs

    Kolkata: The manhandling of eight Trinamool Congress MPs — bodily lifted by Delhi cops from a dharna outside Union home minister Amit Shah's residence, bundled into a police van, and taken to Parliament Street Police Station on Friday — ...

    10 January 2026 Times of India
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